Reviews
Glorious. The most striking thing reading it this time was how buzzed Augustine was about "the present time" of the interadvental period. This isn't just a kind of "in the meantime" time, but in many ways fulfils what the psalms and the prophets foretold: the worship of demons would be driven out from the world by the city of God, and the whole world would sing a new song to the Lord. Notwithstanding the smack talk Augustine sometimes gets for his allegory, I thought it was generally very good. He is very good at hearing things rhyme with each other, for example, that Cain the firstborn and Abel the secondborn correspond to the first "earthy" man and the second "heavenly" man of 1 Cor. 15, and in turn to the earthly and heavenly cities which set their hopes on those respective ends.
